Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:14:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INB question Message-ID: <19970919111434.20114@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709190029.JAA02973@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:59:39AM %2B0930 References: <19970918221839.VL10449@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709190029.JAA02973@word.smith.net.au>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:59:39AM +0930, Mike Smith wrote: >> As Mike Smith wrote: >>> >>> The ISA specification explicitly requires bus pullup resistors. It may >>> be unwise to depend on reading 0xff back-to-back with a previous read/ >>> write operation, ... >> >> That's why i wrote ``unspecified, with a tendency to 0xff''. > > The implication (as an english speaker) from your claim was > "unspecified but sometimes 0xff". It would be civilised to qualify the > "tendency" under the circumstances. To be fair, I think that this is the same as "indeterminate, but with an above-average likelihood of being 0xff". I don't think this has anything to do with the fact that I speak German. Greg
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